I'm not sure exactly what was going on here, but I suspect that maybe they are cleaning up the bridge tower and possibly started with these statues. But I could be wrong. It seems that everywhere I travel, many of the sites I hope to photograph are found covered with scaffolding, and are undergoing renovation and/or cleaning. There was some work going on at the other end of the Charles Bridge, but thankfully, the tower was not draped in scaffolding like St Vitas Cathedral was, or like Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.